07.07.15

Noteworthy

Cunard Marks 175th Anniversary Of Transatlantic Service

Descendant of Sir Samuel
Cunard Hugh Paton from Canada, welcomed by
Cunard's officers & bellmen
in Liverpool where for the first time since 1968
passengers have embarked
for Transatlantic service

RAF
Fred Arrows honour Cunard's 175th anniversary to the day,
with a spectacular
fly-past in Liverpool

Queen Mary 2 sounded her ship's
whistle at 2 p.m. on July 4
th, 2015
in Liverpool to signify the time exactly 175 years earlier that
Cunard's first ship
Britannia left the city's
Coburg Dock and inaugurated the first ever scheduled Transatlantic service.

That first
crossing changed the face of ocean travel, establishing the first permanent
link between the Old World and the New – a link that has remained unbroken for
175 years as Cunard's ships have crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic every year
since, in peace and war, without fail.

History was
also made in the city when 400 Cunard passengers embarked
Queen Mary 2 bound for
Halifax, Boston and New York. This was the first time in nearly 50 years that
passengers have set out on a Transatlantic crossing from Liverpool since
Cunard's Franconia's last crossing from the city in 1968.

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